Wire fence



(No Model.)

W. 0 ONE A D. WIRE FENCE.

Patented 0011.13, 1896.

1 mllz'am 6017220 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM CONRAD, OF ATLANTA, NEXV YORK.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,275, dated October13, 1896.

Application filed July 31, 1896. gerial No. 601,198. (No model.)

To (LZZ ZU7l/0'l77/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM CONRAD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atlanta, in the county of Steuben and State of New York,have invented a new and useful lVire Fence, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to wire fences, and has for its object to provide adevice consisting of runners and connecting-stays applied to theintermediate posts in such a manner as to be automatically compensating,whereby looseness of one or more of the runners will be taken up andstraining of one or more runners will be accomplished by yielding of theothers to maintain an even tension throughout and thus avoid distortion.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a fence constructed in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the connection between anintermediate runner and the intersecting stay.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures of the drawings.

1 designates a terminal, and 2 an intermediate post, to the former ofwhich are attached the extremities of the runners 3, said runners beingarranged in parallel lines and being connected at intervals byintersecting stays 4.

In the construction illustrated in the drawings a stay is arranged atthe center of each panel, and similar stays are located between thecentral stay and each post upon opposite sides thereof, the portions ofthe runners between the stays located, respectively, upon opposite sidesof a post being arranged in inclined positions, as shown at 5. Theseinclined portions of the runners are formed by causing the same tointersect in the plane of the post, whereby of two parallel runners theupper is inclined downwardly and the lower upwardly to intersect in theplane of the contiguous post. Hence the upper runner of a pair arrangedin one panel becomes the lower of the same pair arranged in theadjoining panel, and these intersecting portions of the runners extendloosely through a guide-eye or staple 6, supported by the post.Therefore, in case the fence is strained unequally at different points,the runners are adapted to yield freely through the guide-eyes orstaples to accomplish the above-mentioned compensation and enable thedifferent members of the fence to mutually support each other.

The lock or connection 7, which is employed at the intersection of eachstay with a runner, is formed by coiling the stay around the runner oneor more times and finally arranging the last coil to pass over orintersect the previous coils, thus causing the last-named coil tocompress the first-named coil or coils upon the runner and preventlongitudinal displacement of the runner. Referring to the detail view,Fig. 2, it will be seen that the inner or first-named coil 8 isintersected by the outer or last-named coil 9, whereby the continuous orvertical portion of the stay above the runner is separated from theinner coil 8 by the interposed straight portion of the stay whichextends below the runner, thereby binding the parts securely to therunner to prevent relative displacement.

The above-described lock applies particularly to the attachment of thestays to the intermediate runners, but it will be seen by reference tothe drawings that the attachment of the extremities of the stays to theuppermost and lowermost runners is similar, with the exception that theterminals of the stays are coiled, subsequent to the formation of thelook, around the contiguous straight portion of the stay.

From the above description it will be seen that if either of the runnersis strained the remaining runners, and particularly the twin runner, orthat which extends through the same guide-eye or staple, will yield andequalize the strain upon all of the runners, thus maintaining a uniformtension throughout the structure.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. 7

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a fence, thecombination with posts, of parallel runners arranged in pairs, the

members of each pair intersecting each otherplanes of the posts andextend loosely through guide-eyes or staples supported thereby, andstays intersecting the runners at intervals and provided at each pointof intersection with a lock, consisting of an inner coil embracing therunner and an outer coil intersecting said inner coil, whereby thestraight portion of the stay at one side of the plane of the runner isintersected by the straight portion at the other side of the runner, tosecure the parts against relative displacement, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIAM CONRAD. \Vitnesses XV. CLARK, C. CLARK.

